Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1927, Page 33

The cAmazing Chance By Patricia Copyright. 1027, by i Epn Prothero married Jim 1 e war. Her friends say Xas in love with "cou e Jim's cousin, 3 short time: Tate TeDorted mising o the same. = Tt Evelvn Sdonned widow s weelt’ it as atwavs the “ancetion whicperd amone her ‘Triends of Which y mouried"her hushand. Jim ack W 10 years later m the time they Nere first missing one of them turne 1. Bat. which ane> Tt 'came about like this 4 wh staved in the Br war, driving afons on A d Temove A storm.1 nd ebtains erson of Anton Blur war e Deasant’s hut in the derelict from the war wonnded was restored to physical h ~ident to hrw Than Lavden TWIth memory cone. he Tth. bhut it ook - il one Tesnnct of the Lavdine are name of a was married the wife of after Fvelyn hersell cably quarreled and parted girl o Jim F Continued from Yesterday LAYDON stood on a dingy landing and knocked for the third time on the door which aced her. “All right,” said a voice from within. There was a soft thudding of stockinged feet. and as the door opened a lively smell of cheap scent rushed out and mingled with the smell | of cooking on the stair: onions, patch- ouli, cabbage and Irish stew met in| a horrible blend. i The open door disclosed Miss Pallis- er in what she called a nesligee. 1t} had been pink once. Its satin folds| were unimaginably creased and faded. | and the wisps of chiffon which clung 10 it here and there resembled. both in | color and limpness, the cobwebs which | festoon a neglected room | “Oh, come in. I can't see who vou are, but come in just the same—I'm sure vou're welcome.” Evelyn stepped into a room whose untidin. fairly took her breath away. An eiderdown. a pair of stavs and a hot-water bottle were the first | objects that met her eves. They were all on the floor, while the rest of Miss | Palliser's wardrobe appeared to heaped upon the six chairs and the sofa-bed. The table held the remains of a meal, a pile of fashion papers, comb, a pair of scissors, a very large | powder puff and a pot of rouge. { Miss Palliser whisked a pair of torn purple satin pajamas off the nearest chair and said: “Do sit down, won't you? I'm all} upside down. But what's the use of | worrying? If you're caught in a mess, | vou're caught, and there's an end of it. | Nobody's going to believe you if you | swear yourself black in the face that vou were as tidy terday, and jolly laugh, the eiderdown ked the s ! of the foot, with rather I subsided uppor and t a pair of flame remains of an opera €lyn looked at her with intense | interest. Ten years ago she must| have been awfully pretty. The large dark eyes: the masses of curly dark hair; the white, even teeth—these were | #till beautiful. 3 But Pear] Palliser was beautiful no | Jonger, she was a very pink pearl in- geed, and there was far, far too much | of her. Stout, florid, untidy and good- natured, she sat beaming at Evelyn and waiting to hear her business. It was very difficult to begin. “¥ou must be wondering who I am,” said Evelyn. “Well,” said Miss Palliser, “to be | frank, I am wondering a bit. You see. | dear, when 1 heard your ‘knock I Thought you were the wardrobe dealer 1hat I was expecting—a new one that 1 haven't done bLusiness with before But as soon as you came in out of thut beastly dark passage I began to | think I had made a mistake. You've not got the business look about you, o to speak.” . l'm its. Laydon,” sald Evelyn— #Mrs. Jim Laydon.’ Miss Palliser regarded her with un- uised curiosity. CEen. it that doesn’t best the band” she maid. “Mrs. Jim Laydon are you? Well, I did think there was something about your face that I pught to know. But. after all, 10 years i 10 vears, and I only saw you once; and then when zll's xaid and done, there’s a lot of difference be. | tween what you've got on now and | what you had on then. Orange bios | woms and a white veil in one thing and & plain black felt’s another--well, | there, isn't 177 When did you ever sce,me”’ Eve-| Jyn felt rather bewilderec Yvon, 1 maw you married—set heart on it. 1 had reasons of my o you see e ‘Ehe wtopped short and threw a quick look at Evelyn Reasons of her own. Yes, if she had reslly married Jack Laydon, she might very well have had reasons of her own for wWAnUng 1o wee the girl whom Jack—Evelyn's thought broke .. Bhe hoped that her face had shown nothing. "I stood in the crowd, and 1 saw vou g0 in, and 1 maw you come out i Miss Palliser. I might have wen in the ehurch, and pretty high p, to0, but I was r one 10 purh yself 1o make unpleaxantness. If + not wanted, I'm not wanted, snd 1 siny away. 1 never think purhing's worth while—80 you” Evelyn made an effort 1t only 1here were not such & emell of scent in the room Miss Palliser.” she wsid you come 1o Iy weddin; Don't i | | | | | “why 4id ere | | wedding ring his mind back | 1 | don’t know when T took such a dislike | and all, and a proper wedding-cake | | IN RABBITBORO—A Dumbunny Night. Wentworth I B. Lippencott Co. < didn't—didn’t Mr. Lavdon you the other day “Now | | @ forward with her hands On the third finzer of ! A there was a broad gold s much too tight that) ned to disappear from view. | A passine wonder as to whose | | it was made Evelyn's lips twitch, had a dreadful feeling that at s | moment she mizht begin to lau “Mr. Laydon did come to see didn't h Miss Palliser opened her mouth to speak. but shut it azain, staved havd n. and inquircd ntme to sy Wt thats it w a moment she lo | on her kn her left h Misx u know what T mean, dear. ty queer, isn't it? 1 don't know when I zot such a turn in my | ite; T sive vou my word, T don't—-and w in most of the Talk about bombs (ther have a bomb than a ghost any of the week. You don’t eateh me | ng to any of these mediums and ple—not me. Leave well alone's motto.” Evelyn touched the overplump hand with the wedding ring. “Do you mean that vou recognized him?" ~ Her voice was low, but very insistent. “Well I be telling “Yes. “Well, it'd be ¢ wu wanted me chap came I teman fric sinees? She pink powde Tooked fac Jim Field? Miss Palliser sed ‘mber 7 the 1 Parke: was all_right, | my widow's said Pearl Palliser, wouldn't it>" But I want you to tell me.” i w what to say. W that ng me vesterday little Parker—he was Keen as mustard for me to say that the first minute 1 laid eves on him 1 knew him for Jim Field, which would have been a good old lie—and so 1 told him. T don't care if you're Mr. Cottrell Abbott a hundred times over’ —that's what 1 said to him—if you | heen drink or drug want me to tell lies to oblige vou, ! to bits you've got to show me the reason |dme I left the stag why. Not a friend of yours, T hope, | dear?” without it ! hard it is to days, to round hlan when they can't much stonc-ten th right as lon 1 can't keep of Mr marry still he 1 Miss Palliser velyn bit her I but it was no Lavdon is use. She laughed again. The vision of Cotty being asked to show wood reason why Pearl should tell lies for him was too much for her. finzer “Well, I'm glad if he isn't.” left Ie Palliser crossed her legs and | @ pad. < in her ch “We king of a_bri : Several A length of silk stoc nude shade sprang int holes in the stocki much lighter color of Miss leg. “I give you my word he looked shocked.” She drew her brows to- gether, pulled in her cheeks, and mim: icked Cotty “I—er: really. Mis Pall inquired if you—er—rec er—person.’ " It w very well done. ‘That is what nted to ask—did | nails m you recognize him |a minute The dark eyes considered her. There | Chuckle. was a pause. “Oh, well, perhaps 1 did recognize this man,” said Miss Palliser easily. Then, as Evelyn's color rose and Eve- | lyn's lips parted, she laughed and added. “Perhaps I didn’t i “Oh,” said Evelyn. It was rather a piteous little gasp. “You see" said Miss Palliser. | “there’s a good deal mixed up with it that you don’'t know And that's where my sure I'm 1 whole lot and not. In a way liser's put k in March, 1915 Miss Pallise open rically. dear, for to any one right at the very go-off- R, well, as T said to Nosey, I'm not at all sure it wouldn't suit me best to have him, Jim Ficld—my own private reasons, you know, dear. Come to think of it, it would suit me bhetter, because there’s a gentleman that's a great friend of mine, and in a very good way of business, and nothing he'd like better than for me to say | ‘Yes.' and we'd be married in church | years, and a reception. I'm through with registry offices. They've got a bit | common, don't you think, dear?” Evelyn groped for a connecting | WELL - | MARATHON_ MIDNIGHT ‘ prvied in nd in s Wankly at “Weren't you--w was not 1914, on road registry office d been looking it 1 told him. pension “that’'d | sure I don’t know what I'd You wouldn't b t an engagement nos Mind you,-! ' my best, and 1 know nno domini as the extra th put me among the eakes and I'm 1o ‘em the good of worryi But taking it all round, 1vn held on firmly to Jim Field. | Cif he's Jim Jim and settle down arried, won't you hezan er nails absent-mindedly of the flame-colored t up my mind whether to tell y et it off my it'd be n relief. once the cat’s out of the bag, you can't | can you’ Evelyn looked str “I know vou married Jack Laydon " she me went on rubbi she gave a I'S almost over orth it have place to express m tion and service. ss frames, lorgnons, an eye-examination, a ‘re- its equipment and care, and increases personal comfort permanent remembrance of you throughout the OF ALL THE A\ wm should prove to | “That's hrizht of you. how weald it en- | you find out?” harch to I v d way of Sie Hew the othes and he Jack Laydon's name.™ + WMy Palliser She composed and cheerful . that's that. Does Mr. Nosey Abbott know ” Evelyn shook h “Only my u say anything if 1 Don't_you think the whole thing? “I dare say 1 had. She let the fame-coloved its slide to the floor “1 wouldn't so much mind telling you. s 1 dont mind sying I've taken a o you. IUs funny. too, for 1 nember the time when 1 hated poison. But how did My unele looking for stumbled on ntry, L Wik the large en’t you married in the least v hend and me. e won't ask him not to ou'd better tell me At Nosey up, too. It And 1 zet rvegularl®. I'm we done e how <he said not one of those 3 ¥y one clse I'm past It's not so s and me'd been pretty zond Wl then all of a sudden he 1 and I heard he was going war lasted o =il with alot of mone . 1 was wild. And if you w0 wild was thinking & If & boy likes a gi Kes her hetter it its ju money—well, 1 was hot about it.” “Miss alliser “Well, dear was natural en you I thought di A fool. And now, as 1 say, I've taken | diking to you, and T've a jolly good mind to tell you the whole thing from the beginning.” L1 wish you would,” said Evelyn m ot you into trouble over it VU ipdecd.” vou're mot that of fact, 1've not de t into trouble ove 11 to be on the s my mouth shut it you're going to tell me now” liser tipped her chair t and then youn ield Field e I never seen you. o nongh. After I'd erent—I'm not 1 mean if you ecan't | use you'll | o polish she s than As n nythis Still it's just ¢ side, o I've sort. Kept ght at her, and fro “All right, T will front legs of the rather hard the whole thing. mix-up one She paus aid. | th y < A pretty fair ol nother. I toward Evelyn After or | about half | slow deep | Merrp Christmas! vou are a little tired, but it's par arly if you know that you in someone’s stocking TZ gift, ally your t hts of love, devos An ETZ be cye-glasses, ny number of things pertaining to the eye, and each has its benefits An ETZ gift is a :.fee Etz and See Better” OPTOMETRIST) 1217 G Street: Palliser had Field in December, 1914 married Jim Why would Sore throat while you wait Working in stuffy quarters, sleeping in over-heated homes, mingling with crowds and using appliances that others constantly use, pcople run an almost con- stant risk of a cold or sore throat—or worse. At the first sign of either, use Listerine, the safe antiseptic, full strength. Gargle with it repeatedly. Rinse your mouth with it. Employ it occasionaliy as a nasal douche. These simple measures may be the means of sparing you a trying—and possibly—a costly and painful siege of illness. 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